Traveler-clearer for ring-spinning frames.



PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

0. B. RILEY. TRAVELER OLEARER FOR RING SPINNING FRAMES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.19,1904.

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CHARLES E. RILEY, ()F NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HOW'ARD & BULLOUGH AMERICAN MACHINE (IQ, LIMITED, OF

PAWVTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

TRAVELER-"CLEANER FOR RlNG-SPINNING FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,455, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed September 19, 1904. Serial No. 224,939.

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CiIAuLIcs E. RILEY, a citizen of the United States. residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Traveler-Clearers for King- Spinning Frames, of which thel ollowing is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in traveler-clearers for ring-spinning frames, and more particularly to an improvement in the means for securing the wire clearer to the spinning-frame in its operative position.

In the use of traveler-clearers as heretoi'ore constructed it has been found dil'licult to properly secure them either to the ring-holder or ringrail without making two or more bends in the wire clearer, thus weakening and shortening the life of the clearer and increasing the cost 01'' the same.

The object of my invention is to secure a semicircular wire clearer with only one bend to a ring-holder without removing the ring from the holder.

A further object of my invention is to simplify the construction of the wire clearer and the means for holding the clearer in the ringholder, thereby lessening the cost of the same.

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a semicircular wire traveler-clearer and the means for holding the clearer in the ring-holder, said means consisting of a circular groove in the bottom of the ring-holder-supporting flange, the usual slot in the ring-holder, and the top of the ringrail, and a set-screw in screw-thread engagement with the ring-rail and bearing on the ring-holder, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is atop plan View of part of a ringrail, showing my improved traveler clearer and ring-holder secured to the ring-rail. Fig.

2 is a bottom plan view of the ring-holder and traveler-clearer removed from the ring-rail. Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view taken centrally through the ring-rail, ring-holder, traveler-clearer, and ring, showing the means for securing the clearer to the ring-holder and the ring-holder to the ring-rail; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of my improved semicircular wire traveler-clearer.

.ln the drawings, It indicates the ring-rail of a spinning-frame; 6, the ring-holder; c, the semicircular wire trzweler-clearer; (Z, the ring, and e the traveler. The ring-rail (1/ has the usual circular hole a and the set-screw a, which extends through the ring-rail from its outer edge to the hole (1/, as shown in Fig. 2. The ring (1 extends downwardly in the hole a, in which it is secured by the set-screw a, and has the outwardly extending circular flange Z1, in the bottom of which is the circular groove 6. the circular recess If in the top of the ring (Z, and the usual slot 1/, by which the ring-holder is sprung outward to receive the ring. The wire traveler-clearer c has the semicircular portion 0, shaped to lit in the groove 7), and the upwardly-bent end 0, adapted to extend upward through the slot (1 in the ring-holder, as shown in Fig. 3.

By the novel construction of the groove in the bottom of the flange 1/ of the ringholder 6 the semicircular portion 0 of the wire clearer c is lirmly held in the groove 6 between the bottom of the groove and the top of thering-rail a, as shown in Fig. 3, and can be easily removed or replaced by loosening the set-screw a and removing the ring-holder from the ringrail (0. The circumference 01 the groove [i being greater than the circumference of the ring (Z brings the upwardly-bent end c of the clearer 0 through the slot 7) in the ring-holder in its correct operative position in relation to the traveler a with the use of only one bend in the clearer, as shown in Fig. 4:.

By the use of myimproved traveler-clearer and means for holding the same the clearer is easily and firmly secured in its correct position to remove the iiber from the traveler with only one bend in the clearer and without removing the ring from the ring-holder, and a better result is attained as a whole than has heretofore been done.

It is evident that the groove 7/ in the bottom of the flange 6 could be dispensed with,

if desired, and a similar groove formedin the top of the ring-rail a to hold the semicircular portion a of the clearer 0 without materially affecting the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my in vention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a traveler-clearer for ring-spinning frames, the combination of a ring-rail, a semicircular wire clearer having an upwardly-bent end, and a ring-holder having an outwardlyextending circular flange in the bottom of which is a circular groove, as described.

2. In a traveler-clearer for ring-spinning frames, the combination of a ring-rail in which are circular holes, a ring-holder having a slot, an outwardly-extending circular flange in the bottom of which is a circular groove, and a circular recess in the top adapted to hold a spinning ring by clamping, a semicircular wire traveler-clearer having an unwardly-bent end, and means for securing the ring-holder in the ring-rail, as described.

3. In a traveler-clearer for ring-spinning frames, the combination of the ring-rail a in which isthe circular hole a and the set-screw (0 the ring-holder 5 having the flange Z) in the bottom of which is the groove 6 the recess b for the ring (Z and the slot 5*, and the wire traveler-clearer 0 having the semicircular portion 0' and the upwardly-bent end 0 all as shown and for the purpose as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. RILEY.

\Vitnesses:

W. H. GREENWOOD, H. M. FREGH. 

